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Mystery of dark-matter signal deepens with replication attempts

Physicists at a detector in Italy have long claimed to see the Universe’s missing mass — but copycat experiments don’t yet see the same.
  1. Davide Castelvecchi
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For more than two decades, only one experiment in the world has consistently reported detecting a signal of dark matter — the Universe’s missing mass that physicists have long tried to identify.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00865-9

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